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     • PASADENA, Calif. – Amid a glut of comics-based superhero shows on TV, CW's Black Lightning stands out: It's no origin story, with a newbie discovering new powers. Instead, Jefferson Pierce (Cress Williams) is a retired superhero, whose former crime-fighting broke up his marriage.
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   Is Black Lightning based on a true story?

   • Black Lightning is an American superhero drama television series, developed by Salim Akil, that premiered on The CW on January 16, 2018, and concluded on May 24, 2021. It is based on the character of the same name, created by Tony Isabella with Trevor Von Eeden, featured in publications of DC Comics.

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   Is Black Lightning a superhero show?

   • Unlike other superhero shows, Black Lightning isn’t battling two-headed monsters and aliens, but the realistic and metaphorical villains who exist in the modern world — gangs, gun violence, drugs, sex trafficking, corrupt politicians, racism and racial profiling.

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   Who created Black Lightning?

   • In 1977, Tony Isabella, a writer who had previously worked on Luke Cage's adventures, was hired to help create their first headlining black superhero. After rejecting the editors' original idea, Isabella and artist Trevor Von Eden created Black Lightning.

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   What's behind Black Lightning?

   • From his origins on the page all the way to his current status on the screen, here's the fascinating truth behind Black Lightning. While creators and characters of color had always existed in comics, the first three decades of the superhero genre were overwhelmingly white. In the late '60s, however, that began to change.

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   When does Black Lightning come out?

   • The CW’s newest comic-book-turned-TV-series Black Lightning is the first African-American DC superhero to have his own stand-alone comic title and premieres Jan. 16 — the day after Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

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   Is Black Lightning a good show?

   • In her review for Collider, Allison Keene gave the season's early storylines 4 stars out of 5, writing, " Black Lightning is not without its own flaws, including occasionally disjointed or abrupt storytelling, but its clear desire to educate and inspire through compelling family drama continues to make it a show of consequence."

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   Feb 14, 2018 · Black Lightning purposefully name-drops the Tuskegee experiments and the Flint Water Crisis in relationship to Anissa’s research as other examples of black pain that have gone largely ignored...

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   Dec 28, 2021 · Unfortunately, it seems Black Lightning wasn't invited, leading to an altercation with Jimmy Olsen that reveals SNL's special effects department wasn't quite sure what actual lightning...

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   Jan 11, 2018 · Unlike other superhero shows, Black Lightning isn’t battling two-headed monsters and aliens, but the realistic and metaphorical villains who exist in the modern world — gangs, gun violence, drugs, sex trafficking, corrupt politicians, racism and racial profiling.

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   Black Lightning is an American superhero drama television series, developed by Salim Akil, that premiered on The CW on January 16, 2018, and concluded on May 24, 2021. It is based on the character of the same name, created by Tony Isabella with Trevor Von Eeden, featured in publications of DC Comics.

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   Jan 17, 2018 · The character of Black Lightning is the first African American superhero ever to get his own live-action network TV adaptation (readers may remember the animated Static Shock cartoons of...

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   Jan 10, 2018 · Black Lightning is the alter ego of Jefferson Pierce, a young black man who grew up in the Suicide Slum, a bleakly named neighborhood of Metropolis that earned its nickname from the idea that...

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    Jan 7, 2018 · PASADENA, Calif. – Amid a glut of comics-based superhero shows on TV, CW's Black Lightning stands out: It's no origin story, with a newbie discovering new powers. Instead, Jefferson Pierce...